CVE-2012-2104

medium
Published 2012-08-26 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

cgi-bin/munin-cgi-graph in Munin 2.x writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow user-assisted remote attackers to inject terminal emulator escape sequences and execute arbitrary commands or delete arbitrary files via a crafted HTTP request.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-37084 webapps cgi verified
Helmut Grohne ยท 2012-04-13

Munin 2.0~rc4-1 - Remote Command Injection

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.0~rc6-1
sid Fixed 2.0~rc6-1
forky Fixed 2.0~rc6-1
bullseye Fixed 2.0~rc6-1
bookworm Fixed 2.0~rc6-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
munin-monitoringmunin2.0
munin-monitoringmunin2.1

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.